Jocasta lures Patty to Mount Shasta, but in a good way, and has an earnest conversation with Jack London.
Roger cleverly disrupts a memetic super-spreader event aimed at Los Angeles’ Black underground.
Mitch has a run in with some old associates whom he doesn’t remember, starts a small fire, and stops two black baggers from interfering with an LA gang summit. All in a night’s work.
URIEL convenes to discuss their next moves • Problems are categorized by degree • The decision is made to recruit Patty Hearst • Andy pitches a treatment to Archie • Jocasta helps put Elsie at ease and learns a bit more about the Bohemians • Roger attends a gang summit in South Central • Mitch picks up radio interference … on a laser mic?
Marshall and Sophie pay a visit to a certain Colston Westbrook and learn more about the CWG’s various pet projects.
Roger transports an irritating and paranoid Cinque, plus a few of his “girls,” to Los Angeles in a fraught night-time drive.
Archie and Mitch get a drink with George Washington • Not that George Washington • Though this one looks like the Comte de Saint Germaine • Roger returns to action, undercover • Marshall learns more about Jolly West’s experiments • A new picture of History emerges • Jocasta and Roger ferret Tania and the SLA out of San Francisco • And abduct an old woman
Jocasta, asleep in an alley, dreams of Lost Bohemia and one of its mournful inhabitants.
Jocasta attempts to scope out an SLA drop point and vows to the Underwater Panther that she will kill a businessman who was rude to her.